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Roy Jenkins | |||
| A Retrospective | Politics, Philosophy & Economics | |||
| Andrew Adonis; Keith Thomas (Edited by) | ||||
| Oxford University Press 2004 372 pages | ||||
| Hardback 0199274878 | ||||
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| Roy Jenkins (1920-2003) was a commanding figure in Britain for four decades, with a political impact greater than that of many prime ministers of the period. In this Retrospective friends and associates from every phase of his life chart his remarkable career - from Balliol and Bletchley Park to his later years as one of the nation's elder statesmen and an acclaimed political biographer. Contributors include Roy Hattersley, Kenneth Baker and Jenkins's biographer, Andrew Adonis. | ||||
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Gladstone Centenary Essays | |||
| Politics, Philosophy & Economics | ||||
| David Bebbington; Roger Swift (Edited by) | ||||
| Liverpool University Press 2000 288 pages | ||||
| Paperback 0853239355 | ||||
| Published Price £18.50 | Sale Price £6.99 | |||
| William Ewart Gladstone towers over the politics of the 19th century, renowned for his policies of financial rectitude, his campaigns to settle the Irish question and his championship of the rights of small nations. Covering the whole of the statesman's long political life, from the first Reform Act to the 1890s, this volume of 13 essays ranges over topics including parliamentary reform, free trade, Gladstone's relationship with Peel, his Homeric studies, his English Nonconformist supporters and his Irish Unionist opponents. | ||||
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Lives of Victorian Political Figures | |||
| (Four volumes) | Politics, Philosophy & Economics | |||
| Michael Partridge (Edited by) | ||||
| Pickering & Chatto 2006 1760 pages | ||||
| Hardback 1851968261 | ||||
| Published Price £175.00 | Sale Price £25.00 | |||
| Three iconic Victorian politicians - Palmerston, Disraeli and Gladstone - are the subjects of this first set in a major series on Victorian political figures. Their lives are surveyed by the use of carefully selected extracts from rare contemporary sources. The documents, including memoirs, private journals and diaries, magazines, periodicals and newspapers and political pamphlets, are printed in facsimile, each with a substantial introduction giving its provenance, the author's background and the document's context, and notes. Index in volume four. No jackets. | ||||
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The Blunkett Tapes | |||
| My Life in the Bear Pit | Politics, Philosophy & Economics | |||
| David Blunkett | ||||
| Bloomsbury 2006 872 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 074758821X | ||||
| Published Price £25.00 | Sale Price £3.99 | |||
| After 18 years on Sheffield's City Council, David Blunkett entered Parliament in 1987, and was soon at the very centre of New Labour politics. Despite the blindness which would have deterred a less determined character, he served in many key positions, including Home Secretary from 2001 to 2004. Blunkett is famed for his refreshing candour and bluntness, and his intimate diary is a colourful and very readable account of life in what he aptly terms 'the bear pit' of national politics. Off-mint. | ||||
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Mahatma Gandhi | |||
| Nonviolent Power in Action | Politics, Philosophy & Economics | |||
| Dennis Dalton | ||||
| Columbia University Press 2000 280 pages | ||||
| Paperback Illustrated 0231122373 | ||||
| Published Price £14.50 | Sale Price £3.99 | |||
| This study traces Gandhi's intellectual life and his career as a non-violent activist, looking in particular at civil disobediance and the salt march of 1930 and the fast of 1947. | ||||
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The French Party System | |||
| Politics, Philosophy & Economics | ||||
| Jocelyn AJ Evans (Edited by) | ||||
| Manchester University Press 2003 218 pages | ||||
| Paperback 0719061202 | ||||
| Published Price £14.99 | Sale Price £2.99 | |||
| The French party system seems to be demonstrating fluidity, if not instability, and this book addresses the question: to what extent does this represent outright change and to what extent shifts within a stable structure? The essays provide a complete overview of political parties in France, with analyses of the social and ideological profiles of all the major parties and discussion of bloc and system features, including the pluralist left and Europe. | ||||
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Men that God Made Mad | |||
| A Journey through Truth, Myth and Terror in Northern Ireland | Politics, Philosophy & Economics | |||
| Derek Lundy | ||||
| Jonathan Cape 2006 351 pages | ||||
| Paperback 0224078623 | ||||
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| A Canadian writer, born in Belfast, Derek Lundy examines the lives of three of his Irish ancestors from very different periods in order to understand how inherited memory and the selective plundering of history have affected the perception of truth in Northern Ireland since the 17th century. He ably demonstrates how partisan perspectives have contributed to perpetuation of the sectarian divide from which the community has suffered for so long. | ||||
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Wasn't That a Time? | |||
| Growing Up Radical and Red in America | Politics, Philosophy & Economics | |||
| Robert Schrank | ||||
| MIT 1998 452 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 0262193892 | ||||
| Published Price £29.95 | Sale Price £15.99 | |||
| The autobiography of Robert Schrank who went from Young Communist League member and union activist to management consultant for global corporations telling of his childhood in the Bronx German immigrant working-class culture of the 1920s and 1930s and of a community of political and intellectual passion being torn apart as it struggles to deal with the rise of Nazism and the decline of the old radical movement. | ||||
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Authority and the Liberal Tradition | |||
| From Hobbes to Rorty | Politics, Philosophy & Economics | |||
| Robert Heineman | ||||
| Transaction 1994 234 pages | ||||
| Paperback 1560007141 | ||||
| Published Price £16.95 | Sale Price £8.99 | |||
| Originally published in 1984 and revised and extended for this second edition, Heinemann's book critically describes the historical foundation of modern liberalism, implicitly analysing the status and effectiveness of American democracy. Heinemann examines contemporary liberal ideology, which he argues undermines the normative basis of social stability that was an important element in the classical liberal tradition; and he shows how American government has become hostage to ideology and to the advocacy of interest-group politics. | ||||
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The Great Tibetan Stonewall of China | |||
| The Status of Tibet in International Law and International Policy on Tibet | Politics, Philosophy & Economics | |||
| Martyn Berkin | ||||
| Barry Rose 2000 402 pages | ||||
| Hardback 1902681118 | ||||
| Published Price £43.50 | Our Price £14.99 | |||
| A survey of the status of Tibet in international law and international policy on Tibet with a supplement containing constitutional documents and basic treaties, with chapters on its relations to the United Nations, China and Britain. | ||||
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Poverty and Political Culture | |||
| The Rhetoric of Social Welfare in the Netherlands and France, 1815-1854 | Politics, Philosophy & Economics | |||
| Frances Gouda | ||||
| Amsterdam University Press 1995 276 pages | ||||
| Paperback 9053561587 | ||||
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| An examination of the different rhetorical approaches to poverty, charity and social welfare embraced by intellectuals and policy-makers in the Netherlands and France between 1815 and 1854. | ||||
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Hope Springs Eternal | |||
| An Introduction to the Works of James Boyd White | Politics, Philosophy & Economics | |||
| Jeanne Gaakeer | ||||
| Amsterdam University Press 1998 192 pages | ||||
| Paperback 9053563148 | ||||
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| A survey of the Law and Literature movement explaining theoretical perspectives that contributed to its development with extensive analysis of the work of American jurist, classicist and founder of the movement James Boyd White. | ||||
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Paving the Third Way | |||
| The Critique of Parliamentary Socialism | Politics, Philosophy & Economics | |||
| David Coates (Edited by) | ||||
| Merlin 2003 330 pages | ||||
| Paperback 0850365120 | ||||
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| An anthology of leftist perspectives on the character, politics and evolution of the British Labour Party with writings from thinkers such as Ralph Miliband, David Coates, Leo Panitch and Hilary Wainwright. | ||||
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The Royal Law | |||
| Source of Our Freedom Today | Politics, Philosophy & Economics | |||
| LL Blake | ||||
| Shepheard-Walwyn 2000 120 pages | ||||
| Hardback 0856831913 | ||||
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| This essay on government takes its title from the words accompanying the presentation of the Bible during the coronation service: 'Here is Wisdom; This is the royal Law; These are the lively Oracles of God'. Blake argues that behind the changeable government of party political strife there is a government of greater purpose and permanence consisting of institutions, mostly of medieval origin: the monarchy, parliament, common law, the jury system, church, universities and the armed forces. The Form and Order of Queen Elizabeth II's Coronation is given in an appendix. | ||||
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Jane Addams's Essays and Speeches | |||
| Writings on Peace | Politics, Philosophy & Economics | |||
| Marilyn Fischer; Judy D Whipps (Edited by) | ||||
| Continuum 2005 392 pages | ||||
| Paperback 0826488544 | ||||
| Published Price £19.99 | Sale Price £13.99 | |||
| During her lifetime, Jane Addams (1860-1935) was one of America's most famous women, internationally renowned as a social reformer and peace activist. In 1931 she received the Nobel Peace Prize. This collection contains 68 of Addams's essays and speeches on peace and international understanding. From 'Democracy or Militarism' (1899) to 'Because Wars Interfere with the Normal Growth of Civilization' (1935), these writings show both the consistency of her philosophical commitment and the development of her thinking as the historical landscape changed. Printing errors in the publication data. | ||||
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